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LOCAL
NATURE RESERVES
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
Link
to the January 2009 Nature Notes
21
December 2008
There
were thousands of birds on the River
Adur estuary
at low tide, notably thousands of Lapwings,
thousands of medium-sized gulls, mainly Common
Gulls, hundreds of Dunlins,
Redshanks,
occasional Grey Plover,
a few Cormorants
and Mute Swans,
scores of Great Black-backed Gulls and
hundreds of Black-headed Gulls
all noted in the area between the Railway
Viaduct and Cuckoo's Corner.
Thousands of Common Gulls
settled on the ploughed field north of Cuckoo's Corner.
15
December 2008
Two
Musk
Thistles were still flowering
by the Reservoir on
Mill Hill, but after
the rain deluge
or for some other reason the prickly stems were bent and the purple flowers
were drooping down. Just a few Sow Thistles
were noted on
the road edge.
A Harbour
Porpoise,
Phocoena phocoena,
was washed up dead on the beach by Brooklands Boating Lake, east Worthing
near the Lancing border. It was 1.5 metres long (adults attain a length
of 2 metres).
BMLSS
Cetacea
A gathering
of forty Crows
alerted me to a small wreck of Starfish,
Asteria
rubens, of several hundred were washed
up on the strandline opposite the Burrells
road. There were a frequent egg cases of
the Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Scyliorhinus
canicula, a few Whelks,
Buccinum
undatum, as well as the usual wreck
of seaweed
and Slipper Limpets, Crepidula
fornicata.
Adur
Coastal 2008
1 &
2 December 2008
Healthy
adult Foxes
were seen in the early evening in Shoreham one
casually ambling across Middle Road near the Open Space.
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